Rebooting military ethics from moral injury
Reed, ED
Date: 2023
Article
Journal
Crucible
Publisher
Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd
Abstract
In 2022, members of the Five Eyes Mental Health Research and Innovation Collaborative
recommended the integration of moral injury prevention into military leadership training and
mission command, and the design of military ethics training to better prepare serving personnel
for potentially morally injurious events. The Five Eyes is ...
In 2022, members of the Five Eyes Mental Health Research and Innovation Collaborative
recommended the integration of moral injury prevention into military leadership training and
mission command, and the design of military ethics training to better prepare serving personnel
for potentially morally injurious events. The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance comprising
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The Five Eyes
Health Research and Innovation Collaborative comprises many of the world’s leading experts
in moral injury who recognised the need to advance understanding of moral injury, including
its moral/ethical dimensions. Their challenge is to take moral injury more seriously across all
aspects of military life, including ethics training/education.
This essay picks up the challenge from a Christian perspective. We look briefly at definitions
of moral injury and examples of moral injury in workplaces, before re-visiting the origins of
classic, Western theologically-rooted tradition of just war reasoning – in the experience of
moral injury amongst serving military personnel. This essay reconsiders the origins of Western
military ethics in Augustine’s conversations with Boniface. We begin where Augustine perhaps
failed.
Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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